Born in 1959

A selection from Wikipedia's '1959 in Australia'. Not a complete list.

• 26 January – (Australia Day) – Darwin was granted city status
• 12 February – The Melbourne outdoor performance venue the Sidney Myer Music Bowl is officially opened by Prime Minister Robert Menzies.
• 15 February – American evangelist Billy Graham begins a tour of Australia.
• 23 February – The National Institute of Dramatic Art is officially opened at the University of New South Wales in Sydney by chairman of the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust, Nugget Coombs.
• 4 June – the Soviet embassy in Canberra was reopened. It had been closed since 29 April 1954 as a result of the Petrov Affair
• 29 July – Qantas launched its first jet service from Sydney to San Francisco via Nadi and Honolulu.
• 23 September – the M/S Princess of Tasmania Australia's first passenger Roll-on/roll-off diesel ferry makes maiden voyage across Bass Strait.
• 11 December – Georgian-born Australian amateur ocean rower Michael 'Tarzan' Fomenko arrives in Dutch New Guinea having paddled a dugout canoe from Queensland for months via the islands of the Torres Strait for supplies.

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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